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Forgiveness: The Key To Your Marriage. Are You Forgiving? Here's How To Tell!
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Shellie Reneé
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On your wedding day, when you looked into your husband’s eyes and thought about sharing the rest of your life with him, be honest. Did it even cross your mind to think about all of the things you would need to forgive over the course of your relationship?

Not just the minor stuff like him not making the bed (when he said he would) or forgetting to pay the cable bill. The major stuff like forgetting your birthday, two years in a row. Not standing up for you when his mom hurt your feelings. Or that last argument you got into when he went way below the belt with his words in order to make a point.

Forgiveness is not easy. It requires being vulnerable. It requires choosing to trust again. It requires seeing someone as we are: a human who makes mistakes. But some of the best marriages are filled with tons of stories where both spouses had to choose to forgive. Over and over and over again.

How can you know if you and yours are good forgivers? How many things can you check off on this list?

About Shellie Reneé

Just a woman who digs all things relationships. HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS, that is. I've been writing (professionally) for close to 20 years, including having two books published. I'm also a marriage life coach and doula. Sometimes I speak to large audiences or do radio interviews, but usually I'm sitting in my favorite chair, surfin' the 'net and penning stuff that I wish I had read in my early 20s.

Listen, I don't have all the answers, not by a LOOOOONG shot. But whatever I can do to spare folks any heartbreak, bitterness or straight-up drama, I'll devote some keystrokes to doing. 

That's it...in a nutshell. For the most part. Kinda. ;)

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